confirming an exclusive report<\/a> by the South China Morning Post last month.<\/p>\nA European Union official said Brussels had identified four countries as high-risk \u2013 China, Russia, North Korea and Iran \u2013 but only China, which controlled 80 per cent of global supply, had a dominant presence in the European inverter market.<\/p>\n
Chinese brands Huawei and Sungrow ranked as the world\u2019s top two solar inverter manufacturers in the first half of last year, ahead of Germany\u2019s SMA and Austria\u2019s Fronius, according to a report published by natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie in January.<\/p>\n
The EU official said Brussels had identified cybersecurity and dependency risks in inverters, devices that convert renewable power into grid-ready electricity.<\/p>\n
Financial institutions had until May 15 to notify the European Commission of ongoing projects \u2013 in or outside the EU \u2013 using Chinese inverters connected to the EU grid. Brussels would then decide by November 1 \u2013 on a case-by-case basis \u2013 whether to grant exemptions for projects that were too far along to switch suppliers without disrupting deployment, the official said. The European Commission did not spell out what Chinese companies could do to get off the blacklist.<\/p>\n
The official said Brussels believed there were more than enough non-Chinese suppliers for the sector to absorb the switch, with the additional cost estimated at less than 2 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU has taken its most direct step yet to cut Chinese clean energy hardware out of publicly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[313,954,18,400,9566,7887,2541,9569,9563,89,277,9568,125,172,2815,9562,3164,4252,9565,390,9571,5827,3576,9567,87,9564,9570],"class_list":{"0":"post-14091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-brussels","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-china-chamber-of-commerce-to-the-eu","13":"tag-chinese","14":"tag-clean-energy","15":"tag-cybersecurity-act","16":"tag-cybersecurity-risks","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-european-commission","19":"tag-european-investment-bank","20":"tag-european-union","21":"tag-germany","22":"tag-huawei","23":"tag-inverters","24":"tag-iran","25":"tag-japan","26":"tag-north-korea","27":"tag-russia","28":"tag-sma","29":"tag-solar-power","30":"tag-south-china-morning-post","31":"tag-sungrow","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-wind-power","34":"tag-wood-mackenzie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116519782456116420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}